Zholobova, G.A. Mechanism of legal regulation of the foreign trade of firearms in the Russian Empire at the verge of XIX and XX centuries.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the current legislation, as well as unpublished circulars and instructions of the Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and archive documents, which are introduced into the scientific turnover by the author for the first time. It allows to study the mechanism of legal regulation of private export and import of firearms in the Russian Empire at the stage of development of bourgeois relations and spread of revolutionary tendencies. The article presents unique Russian experience of combining international, legislative, departmental and local means of legal regulation of the firearms trade.

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